Gate-hinge.



H. KOLKNIEHR.

GATE HINGE.

APPLICAUON FILED 0m11.191s.

Patented July 3, 1.917.v

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HENRY KOLKMEIER, OF ST. PETERS, MISSOURI.

GATE-HINGE.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1917.

f Application led October 11, 1916. Serial No. 125,022.

To @ZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY KoLKMEmR, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Peters, in the county of St. Charles and State ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Gate-Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hinges, more particularly to devices of thischaracter employed for supporting gates and like structures, and has forone of its objects to provide a simply constructed hinge which may beformed principally from band metal and readily adaptable to posts ofvarious sizes and shapes Without material structural change.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described andthen specically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention- Figure 1 is aside elevation of a portion of a hinge post and a portion of a gate withthe improved hinge applied,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the post portion of the hinge device with thepost in section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 represents disconnected perspective views of the parts of thehinge device shown in Fig. 2,

Fig. .1i is a detached perspective of one of the hinge pins,

Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of the hinge members which arecarried by the gate.

The improved device includes a band formed of coacting members 10*11 andadapted to bear against opposite sides of a post representedconventionally at 12. One of the band members, for instance, the member11 is extended at one end and is formed into an eye 13, the terminal ofthe eye being secured to the body of the band by a clamp bolt 14 or likedevice. Formed in the member 11 adjacent to the clamp bolt 14: is alongitudinally directed slot 15. The band member 10 is formed with abarbed terminal 1G adapted to be inserted through the slot 15, as shownin Figs. 1 and 2 and thus unite the band members at the side of the postneXt to the eye 13. At their opposite ends, the band members 10 and 11`are perforated to receive byd which the band members are clamped firmlyto the post. By this simple means, when the bolt 17 is applied and itsnut actuated by a wrench or other suitable implement, the slot 15 andthe barbed terminal 16 in co-action with the bolt 17, will cause theband to be firmly gripped upon the post and held in position thereon andeffectually prevented from slipping under the severe strains to which itwill be subjected.

Engaging' in the eye 13 is a hinge pin 18 having an intermediate stopshoulder' 19 bearing upon the upper edge of the eye and a lateral offset22 at the upper end. The portion of the pin 18 adjacent to the stopshoulder 19 is adapted to receive the hinge member 20 of the gate, aportion of which is represented conventionally at 21. Each of themembers 20 is formed from a section of strap shaped metal bentintermediate its ends to form lcontacting sides and enlarged into a loop24 at the bend to receive the portion of the pin 18 above the shoulder19, the parts being separated at the juncture of the contacting sidesand loop to form a recess or socket 23 to receive the offset 22 of thepin and thus permit the member 2O to be mounted upon the pin butirremovable therefrom until the gate is disposed in a certainpredetermined position or with the offsets registering with therecesses, preferably when the gate is about half way open.

By this arrangement, the gate can be supported from the post withoutforming holes in the post or otherwise weakening or mutilating it.

The holding members 11h12 may likewise be adjusted upon the post to anyrequired eXtent and readily adapted without structural change to gatesof various sizes and removed or attached by anyI person without previousskill or knowledge.

Having thus described my inventionnvhat I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. In a hinge, a band including coacting members adapted to encompass apost, one of said members extended and formed into a pin receiving eyeand with a longitudinal slot adjacent to the eye, and the other bandmember formed with a barbed terminal to engage in the slot, and meansfor clamping the other ends of the band members to apply strain theretoto hold them to the post.

a clamp bolt 17 2. In an Vappnretws of the elass described, toyengegethe pn,;,thc e` parts fof the strap at a device adapted to be attachedt0. essuppert Lheiuncture of the loop and the contacting and includingan eye, e pin engaging n sides being separated to form e recess to re-10 said eye and having a, lateral *e-'setat *the ceivethe*bisetofthepin.

5 upper end, and a hinge member formed In testimony whereof I afHX mysignature..

from a, strap bent intermediate the ends to form contacting sides, and eloopnt thebend y HENRY KOLKMEIER. ,[L. e]

Copies of this patent mayfbe'lqbtrarinedrfor fivecentsfeaeh-,abyaddressingethe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

